Executive Power

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If We Compete Any Harder, We're Really Gonna Lose

Matt Welch | 1.25.2011 4:21 PM

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If Only Obama Would Just Mail it in

Matt Welch | 1.25.2011 2:33 PM

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The Year in Clemency

The major pardon and commutation stories of 2010

Radley Balko | 1.10.2011 12:00 PM

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Obama May Break One Promise to Keep Another

Jacob Sullum | 1.5.2011 12:10 PM

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You Know What America Really Needs Right Now? A Better State of the Union Address

Matt Welch | 12.17.2010 9:11 AM

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Obama Ends His Pardon Drought. Meekly.

Radley Balko | 12.5.2010 6:00 PM

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Division Dividends

Two-party control is better than the alternative, but not much.

Jacob Sullum | 10.27.2010 7:00 AM

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Also, Obama's Taxes Are Higher

Jacob Sullum | 10.19.2010 5:15 PM

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I Could Kill You, But Then I'd Have to Keep It a Secret

Jacob Sullum | 10.13.2010 1:24 PM

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The Not Your Job Prize: Meg Whitman and the Jewish Question

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.11.2010 12:51 AM

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Assassinations Done Wrong

Obama's troubling embrace of the state secrets doctrine

David Harsanyi | 10.6.2010 12:00 PM

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Confirmation Theater

Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominees keep the public as ignorant as possible.

Radley Balko | 9.28.2010 7:00 AM

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Who Is More Macho, 2010 Edition

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.29.2010 11:44 AM

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From the Why-I'm-Turning-Libertarian Files

Matt Welch | 8.20.2010 11:42 AM

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Oil Gushes and Power Rushes

Obama's "$20 billion shakedown" exemplifies his lawlessness.

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2010 7:00 AM

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Presidential Size Matters

Damon Root | 6.22.2010 2:37 PM

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Keith Olbermann to Daily Kos: I Break With Thee

Matt Welch | 6.17.2010 10:26 AM

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As the Spill Expands, So Does Presidential Power

More fallout from the BP oil spill

Steve Chapman | 6.17.2010 7:00 AM

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Why, Oh, Why Doesn't Obama Save Us?

Why a president who does too much is far more dangerous than one who does too little

Steve Chapman | 6.14.2010 7:00 AM

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Glenn Greenwald, on "this suffocating, two-party monster"

Matt Welch | 6.11.2010 3:08 PM

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Don't You Go Calling Obama an "ex-state senator," Hater!

Matt Welch | 6.11.2010 12:48 PM

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"According to their bios, Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd are 57 and 58 years old, respectively. You'd never guess it from their columns."

Matt Welch | 6.2.2010 11:59 AM

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Elena Kagan and Executive Power

Damon Root | 5.24.2010 9:27 AM

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Elena Kagan on Free Speech, Executive Power, and Judicial Restraint

Will Obama's Supreme Court pick show too much deference to the government?

Damon Root | 5.13.2010 3:00 PM

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Would You Believe an OLC That Can Say 'Maybe'?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2010 2:46 PM

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Mr. President, You're No Theodore Roosevelt

Damon Root | 3.11.2010 8:31 AM

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Obama Is the Queen of America

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.3.2010 9:24 AM

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Alito's "Not True" Moment

Matt Welch | 1.28.2010 8:10 AM

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Which First-Time SOTUer Said it?

Matt Welch | 1.27.2010 3:49 PM

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Advice to Barack Obama by Two People Who Didn't Vote for Him (or John McCain)

But just might if he ever got serious about governing.

Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie | 1.26.2010 4:30 PM

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Obama to Propose Three-Year Spending Freeze

Matt Welch | 1.25.2010 9:36 PM

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Douglas Brinkley Likes the Cut of Obama's Jib! No Really, He Said That, and Lots of Other Bollocks Besides

Matt Welch | 12.23.2009 12:03 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch in the New York Post on Liberals Attacking Obama

Reason Staff | 12.20.2009 8:17 AM

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Obama's Appetite for "Unprecedented" Crisis and Response

Matt Welch | 11.25.2009 2:35 PM

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What Calvin Coolidge Can Teach Barack Obama

Damon Root | 11.10.2009 4:48 PM

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Shut Your Mouth If Your Experience Is Not Typical Enough

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.5.2009 1:31 PM

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Automaker Bailout: Such a Bad Investment, It Should Have Been Illegal. Oh Wait, It Was.

Jacob Sullum | 9.9.2009 12:14 PM

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Executive, Still Privileged

Matt Welch | 8.10.2009 9:22 AM

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George Bush Gave Your Daughter Syphilis

And other myths about presidential potency

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.22.2009 3:10 PM

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Obama, Bush, & FDR: Together Again

Nick Gillespie | 6.29.2009 9:04 AM

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Hitchens' rules of comedy: If it bends it's funny; if it breaks it's not

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.19.2009 3:11 PM

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Obama's Gag Reflex

Matt Welch | 5.11.2009 10:07 AM

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Arlen Specter on "The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs"

Matt Welch | 5.7.2009 10:14 AM

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Rescue by Fiat

The Chrysler deal confirms President Obama's disregard for the law.

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2009 7:00 AM

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President of Everything

Obama's executive grasp includes our entire lives

Brian Doherty | 4.27.2009 4:30 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty in The American Conservative on Barack Obama as "The President of Everything"

Reason Staff | 4.20.2009 1:08 PM

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The Torturers Among Us

Matt Welch | 4.20.2009 11:09 AM

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An Enemy Combatant by Any Other Name…

Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2009 12:38 PM